I let the American people down.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.